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WOMBAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wombat mean?
• WOMBAT (noun)
The noun WOMBAT has 1 sense:
1. burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger
Familiarity information: WOMBAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("wombat" is a kind of...):
marsupial; pouched mammal (mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried)
Holonyms ("wombat" is a member of...):
family Vombatidae; Vombatidae (wombats)
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